The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations.
The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through.
The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4 completed lines. Each stanza deals with 4 incomplete lines and the poet uses the present tense in this poem because it is a recent event that happened. The metaphors are clearly noticeable during the poem because, if I have understood correctly the poem, …show more content…
The poet takes his imaginary fox and transformed it into words that form their own accord. The poet becomes one with the page as the darkness of the mind, the senses alive with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, the real world left none the wiser as the poem is crafted ("Analysis Of Poem "The Thought Fox" By Ted Hughes").
The whole fox becomes fully formed in the poem. The fox is no longer a formless emotional somewhere in the dark depths of the bodily imagination; it has been coaxed out of the darkness and into full consciousness. And all this has been done purely by the imagination. For in reality there is no fox at all, and outside, in the external darkness, nothing has changed. We can prove it by line 23: “The window is starless still; the clock ticks” (Mural.uv.es.)
The poet captures the metaphor formlessness by letting the reader glimpse only the eye, the shadow, the prints and the smelling of the fox. The reader places it, too, in a formless environment: a blank page, snow and night. The reader cannot know where fox begins and where the snow ends. The fox began as something imagined external to the poet in the forest but ends lodged inside the poet’s head and on paper ("Critical Analysis Of The Thought Fox By Ted
The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through.
The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4 completed lines. Each stanza deals with 4 incomplete lines and the poet uses the present tense in this poem because it is a recent event that happened. The metaphors are clearly noticeable during the poem because, if I have understood correctly the poem, …show more content…
The poet takes his imaginary fox and transformed it into words that form their own accord. The poet becomes one with the page as the darkness of the mind, the senses alive with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, the real world left none the wiser as the poem is crafted ("Analysis Of Poem "The Thought Fox" By Ted Hughes").
The whole fox becomes fully formed in the poem. The fox is no longer a formless emotional somewhere in the dark depths of the bodily imagination; it has been coaxed out of the darkness and into full consciousness. And all this has been done purely by the imagination. For in reality there is no fox at all, and outside, in the external darkness, nothing has changed. We can prove it by line 23: “The window is starless still; the clock ticks” (Mural.uv.es.)
The poet captures the metaphor formlessness by letting the reader glimpse only the eye, the shadow, the prints and the smelling of the fox. The reader places it, too, in a formless environment: a blank page, snow and night. The reader cannot know where fox begins and where the snow ends. The fox began as something imagined external to the poet in the forest but ends lodged inside the poet’s head and on paper ("Critical Analysis Of The Thought Fox By Ted